"When I get down on
"When I get down on all fours and go up to dogs and go 'hhuhahhuhahhuh,' they get very solicitous."The lengths to which researchers go in determining whether dogs laugh.
"When I get down on all fours and go up to dogs and go 'hhuhahhuhahhuh,' they get very solicitous."The lengths to which researchers go in determining whether dogs laugh.
“That’s racist!" is a record of angry asian man’s observations and experiences with racism. It’s got a lot of sharp insight mixed with a fair amount of humor, but if you disagree with more than about 10% of his accusations, that’s racist!
Then, one by one the prisoners were asked, in broken English: 'Who is your government?' Norman thought they meant what nationality he was, but then he noticed the replies of the others. Taking his cue from his neighbour, he answered in Italian: 'Polizia'. Anything else would almost certainly have meant another beating.Don't read these stories about the Genoa detentions on a full stomach. Bastardi!
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originally posted by xowie
Fabulous little essays on art history, from painter Robin Urton.
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Challenging White Supremacy resources for workshops.
Simply watch your breath whenever possible.The Meditation Tip of the Day, daily wisdom from different sources.
After few breaths your mind will wander.
Catch this.
No matter how long or short a time you have been away simply come back to the breath.
Don't dwell on what is past.
Be ever present with the breath.
If no other object arises return to the breath.Vipassana
I used to be editor of the Open Directory Project’s Race and Racism category. Lately, my login has not been working. I need to look in to that. The ODP is neat; some of you may be interested in looking at a proposed reorganization of the Society: Issues: Race-Ethnic-Religious Relations category. I have had a year to think about it, and am still not quite sure why it doesn’t satisfy me, but it doesn’t. What do you think?
John Kass has emitted some intense columns lately about the Chicago Mob. Curiosity led me to a cop site full of wild stories. There’s tons more about Midwest organized crime at the site of CJ prof. Gary Potter.
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originally posted by xowie
originally posted by xowie
There are some things the general public does not need to know and shouldn't. I believe democracy flourishes when the government can take legitimate steps to keep its secrets and when the press can decide whether to print what it knows.Undernews, the daily news service of the Progressive Review, attributes this quote to Katharine Graham.
Slice of life in a leather bar.
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State terrorism in Genoa International action appeal
List of solidarity demonstrations
WP photos 7/20 - 7/21
IMC print 7.22.01
The wild boy who became a martyr
Police seek Black Bloc who brought mayhem to city
Leaders Start to Rethink the Big-Summit Format
G8: Still tension after the violences that have upset Genoa
G8 halts ‘super summits’
Aftermath in Genoa
Prodi defends demonstrators
"Truncheons rained down on me…"
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I’ve got to stop now. We should be safe if we can make our way back to where we’re stayiing. Call the Italian Embassy. Go there, shame them! We may not be able to mount another demonstration tomorrow here if the situation stays this dangerous. Please, do something!Agents of the Italian government beat a bunch of sleeping dissidents bloody yesterday in the defense of my access to cheap consumer goods. I believe that if they could simply beat a few dozen people bloody to prevent this firsthand account of the Genoa IMC raid from reaching my eyes, they would not hesitate to do so.
See also an account of the day before in Genoa:
A whole lot of people have been badly hurt, people who clearly and unmistakably are not rock throwing, streetfighting youth, people who believed they were going to be in a peaceful and reasonably safe place. Lisa and I had done a training for the women, trying to give them some sense of what they might face on the streets from our experience in other actions. But there’s no real way to prepare for a cop beating a peaceful, non-aggressive, midde-aged woman on the head.
We are currently negotiating with Springer's producers over a proposed "brand" showdown in which a young female representing the WTO "brand" would face-off against a young male representing "Anti."....In focus groups, 59% of teens reported that they would consider purchasing WTO product if associated with friendly talking frog.Leaked Memo Reveals WTO Plan to "Sell" Itself to American Youth.
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This one goes out to Mimi Fariña.
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ConnectNet.org takes your zip code and shows you places nearby where you can connect to the Internet for free.
Why Boycott Adobe? Because Adobe Systems (creator of Photoshop) has leveraged the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to sic the Federal Bureau of Investigation on a Russian graduate student presenting a research paper in Las Vegas this week. You, too, can violate the DMCA (and risk Adobe’s wrath) if you just decode the following cipher: enaqbzJnyxf ybirf lbh. Am I an accessory if I give you a hint?
Part of the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, Dr. David Pilgrim’s The Tragic Mulatto Myth is a marvelous survey of American film and literature. See also The Meaning of Mulatto by Erin Bannister:
By the end of twelfth grade, I had adopted the word mulatto, a term that originated from the Spanish word for mule, the ungainly, stubborn, and sterile offspring of a donkey and a horse. Which one of my parents, I wonder, is the donkey?
If you can’t watch the MacWorld New York keynote currenty in progress, check out this MacNN text feed or this pbzone text feed.
Bottle Village, Cadillac Ranch, Carhenge, Chandigarh, Dickeyville Grotto, Heidelberg Project, House Sculptee, Las Pozas, Milkovisch House, Owl House, Palais Idéal, Pasaquan, Rainbow House, Roden Crater, Salvation Mountain, Tarot Garden, Villa d’Este, Watts Towers.
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Effects were present in twenty minutes, and I took my portable radio into the garden at forty minutes just to pull weeds. Each weed had special significance, and my cat Ms. joined me and agreed with me. This is excessively strange.Sasha Shulgin's 5-MeO-DiPT (aka foxy).
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